(your pardon, OP, for that random-ish bit of rantishness)

No worries! I didn’t expect Mod World to get a warm response on Lemmy, ranting is reasonable and expected.

The first shooting I remember was the Heath High School shooting in 1997. Things haven’t been ok for a long time

Do you remember when rumor had it that fever reliever A made you more vulnerable to covid, so the stocks of fever reliever B were emptied?

We did lose power for a week and that both sucked and helped inform my preparations going forward.

I have prepper leanings that I satisfy by knowing my neighbors, having multiple ways to start a fire, a good supply of bottled water, and enough shelf stable food for a few months. I keep enough gas in my car to get me to Canada, have an overnight bag with a change of clothes, toiletries, and my passport. I could go more into prepping, but this is where the balance lies between my anxiety (over being in multiple politically disfavoured groups) and my partner’s differently flavored anxiety (over getting things we don’t need.)

It’s nice to be able to call your parents when you’re bleeding out in the school atrium.

Latest version of Anubis has a JavaScript-free verification system. It isn’t as accurate, so I allow js-free visits only if the site isn’t being hammered. Which, tbf, prior to Anubis no one was getting in, JS or no JS.

Yay! I won’t edit my comment (so your comment will make sense) but I checked and they also list they/them on their github profile

That makes sense. I was raised Southern [USA], so I can fake polite conversation with the best of them. If anything, I’m too chatty if the checkout clerk gives the slightest sign of talkativeness.

same. The local self checkouts are a sensory nightmare for me. There’s blinking lights I can’t avoid, a camera+screen I can’t ignore… I just can’t deal with it.

local home depot only has self checkout. I don’t go there any more.

I’ll say the developer is also very responsive. They’re (ambiguous ‘they’, not sure of pronouns) active in a libraries-fighting-bots slack channel I’m on. Libraries have been hit hard by the bots: we have hoards of tasty archives and we don’t have money to throw resources at the problem.

The second. John 3:16 is a very popular verse in the Baptist crowd I grew up around in the 90s. I don’t think it’s any more a fascist dog whistle than a Jesus fish. YMMV on how christofascist that is.

Like, I never went to church and it’s ingrained in my brain from my classmates and reading bumper stickers.

Our understanding of how words work is different and that is ok. We’ve clearly communicated how we each interpret the phrase, so there’s no misunderstanding in this case and we are unlikely to encounter the same phrase together again in the wild.

edit: root disagreement is that you believe the adverb “explicitly” cannot modify the verb “imply”, whereas I believe it can. I doubt either of us will convince the other.

It’s not explicitly saying X, it’s explicitly implying X. Really being explicit that they’re implying the thing.

“I’m not saying I’m running for president but I’m not not saying that, if you know what I mean”

(haven’t seen the clip, just postulating)

I’ve never owned a printer, but have always had a job where I could print personal stuff. Highly recommend. My current job, I have a personal laser printer and it’s awesome. I use it to print letters, notes for doctor’s visits, and craft patterns.

and there’s no way I’d trust my phone enough to not print travel tickets. Paper backups ftw.

We’re thinking of getting a shower stool for my partner because he has trouble standing for a full shower (long, curly hair takes him forever to deal with), but his legs don’t fit gracefully in the tub.

Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.

I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.

And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.

Yes, it’s a þorn.

I’ll cry all the way to the bank and doctor, what with my retroactive pay raise, my pretty awesome health insurance, and my liberal time off. We even got hazard pay during the early pandemic (if we were in a position where we had to see people in person).

My union (AFSCME) bargains alongside the state cops. You might say it’s a union of unions. ACAB, but they get good benefits and never have a pay reduction. You can’t say that about most librarians.

Edit: oops, just noticed which community I’m in. I’m in the USA and I’m not happy about our politics. Sorry to be an ugly American and assume that if your coworkers were anti-union you must be USAian.